Scrum: a Breathtakingly Brief and Agile Introduction
The Sprint Cycle The sprint cycle consists of several meetings, often called ceremonies: sprint planning daily scrum story time sprint review retrospective
Hillary Louise Johnson • Scrum: a Breathtakingly Brief and Agile Introduction
The Product Owner Role in a Nutshell: holds the vision for the product represents the interests of the business represents the customers owns the product backlog orders (prioritizes) the items in the product backlog creates acceptance criteria for the backlog items is available to answer team members’ questions
Hillary Louise Johnson • Scrum: a Breathtakingly Brief and Agile Introduction
The simplest task board consists of three columns: to do, doing and done. Tasks move across the board, providing visibility regarding which tasks are done, which are in progress, and which are yet to be started. This visibility helps the team inspect their current situation and adapt as needed. The board also helps stakeholders see the progress tha
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Unlike the traditional “post mortem,” the aim of a retrospective is never to generate a long laundry list of things that went well and things that went wrong, but to identify no more than one or two strategic changes to make in the next sprint. It’s about process improvement.
Hillary Louise Johnson • Scrum: a Breathtakingly Brief and Agile Introduction
the stakeholders will have feedback and ideas, and the product owner and the team members will gather this feedback, which will help the team to inspect-and-adapt the product. This meeting is not a decision-making meeting.
Hillary Louise Johnson • Scrum: a Breathtakingly Brief and Agile Introduction
the product owner controls the order, sometimes called priority, of items in the team’s backlog. In scrum, no-one but the product owner is authorized to ask the team to do work or to change the order of backlog items.
Hillary Louise Johnson • Scrum: a Breathtakingly Brief and Agile Introduction
Part 2: “How will we do it?” In phase two of the sprint planning meeting, the team rolls up its sleeves and begins to decompose the selected stories into tasks.
Hillary Louise Johnson • Scrum: a Breathtakingly Brief and Agile Introduction
the team needn’t solve problems in the meeting: simply surfacing the issues and deciding which team members will address them is usually sufficient.